Marta Hanson

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Marta Hanson is a student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government studying democracy, narrative and civic engagement. She’s currently based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

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In this aerial view from a drone, people walk through a mobile home park destroyed by fire on September 10, 2020 in Phoenix, Oregon. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

I’ve Lived Through Wildfires Before, But Nothing Compares To This: A Letter From The West Coast

One hundred years ago, in the midst of another global pandemic, Marta Hanson's great-grandmother lived through a Minnesota wildfire that scorched 250,000 acres and displaced 50,000 people. Hanson wonders what...

Cognoscenti

Sep 18, 2020